The rise of Eurosceptic, nationalist, populist parties, which are now making the running in France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands and Germany, has horrified Europe’s political elites.
Take the sneering response by one Berlin-based think-tank to the populist revolt that was so evident in the European Union (EU) elections in the summer.
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) lamented that ‘the EU’s “whiteness” was on full display’, despairing that ‘drivers of discontent [are] behind [a] drift to ethnic European-ness’.
